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hawk noun- LSD US
May be used with “the”. - — Donald Louria, Nightmare Drugs, p. 45, 1966
- Street names [...] Gorbachovs, hawk, L, lightning flash[.] — James Kay and Julian Cohen, The Parents’ Complete Guide to Young People and Drugs, p. 141, 1998
- a lookout US
- — American Speech, p. 98, May 1956: “Smugglers’ argot in the southwest”
- any cold night wind US, 1946
Often with “the”. - “He so tough, man, li’l fucker, the hawk is out, an’ he’s in here bare-ass.” — Michael Herr, Dispatches, p. 129, 1977
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Spring 1982
- As if on cue, the ramp behind Evans began to open, letting in the cold night air, known to the paratroopers as “the Hawk.” — Harold Coyle, Sword Point, p. 83, 1988
- Paratroopers call it “The Hawk,” a piercing chill that cuts through the flesh to the bone with a talon-like grip. — Washington Times, 30 January 1991
- a strong wind that blows off Lake Michigan across Chicago US, 1946
- It wasn’t bad at all in the summer, that wind, but in the winter it was gruesome. The Hawk, it was called ironically. Lou Rawls sings about it, calls it a giant razor blade. — Odie Hawkins, Black Casanova, p. 119, 1984
- The wind Chicagoans called the Hawk flew over the empty lots, the eyeless windows, flying low, talons scraping the big painted plate-glass windows, prying into doorways where derelicts sought shelter, chattering in rage down the alleys. — Robert Campbell, Boneyards, p. 184, 1992
- I’m wearing no coat against the frontline urgency of the Hawk of Lake Michigan. — Clarence Major, All-Night Visitors, p. 142, 1998
- a racetrack scout US
- “We usually reached the drivers through ‘hawks,’ back-stretch regulars who lived and drank with the drivers and trainers.” — Nicholas Pileggi, Wise Guy, p. 64, 1985
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